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I saw I Saw The TV Glow last night, a while after being intrigued by a review of it by one of my fave youtubers. I went in knowing the message it was intending to convey but I don't want to spoil it here so I'll just say that I really enjoyed it and both the message it wants to share and many points beyond that were so coherent and vivid to me. It's a slow, intriguing, bleak, hopeful, frustrating, sweet, funny mix wrapped in a neon pink glow. I found myself smiling at little moments so much despite expecting it to be much more the opposite.
One of the things I knew I'd love though is the heavy 90s nostalgia and the focus on two things in particular that I adore so much from my past, and which had such a defining impact on me: Buffy and Smashing Pumpkins 🥰 I was literally Captain America-ing all over the place with so many cute nods, homages, tiny cameos, and clever depictions of how an awkward but immeasurable bond can grow from the magic of fandom. Perhaps not a film for everyone, it's very unique in style, but such a gorgeous nostalgia-fest for two great loves of my life and such an important message for everyone wrestling with their own sense of self.
This is far from the first time I've contemplated and declared this, and it surely won't be the last, but sometimes it just strikes me so hard out of nowhere that watching Supernatural all those many years ago really was one of the best decisions I ever made in my whole life.
And I say that as someone who started struggling to stick with it 7 seasons in and still hasn't seen huge chunks of the show 😆 Starting it and almost immediately getting swept up in the fandom for years, attending the conventions, (including Jensen's very shy first ever event), making so many friends etc was such an incredibly rewarding decision in so, so many ways.
I'm grateful to that show every single day, and now I have so much love for The Boys as well I realise I just generally owe Eric Kripke a pint at this point 😄
Been thinking about this a hell of a lot lately and if I had a nickel for every time an Eric Kripke show had a profound and spectacularly positive impact on my life I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice 😄
